Individual-cigarette-tipping machine.



No. 887,761. PA'IENTED MAY 19 1908.

A. BOUCHER. INDIVIDUAL CIGARETTE TIPPING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED H0114, 1906.

I 3 SHEETS-SHEET l mmman My 19 A. BGUGHER.

GARSTTB TIFP ENG MACHIHE,

INDIVIDUALUI a n i E.

No. 887,761. PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

A. BOUGHT-3R. INDIVIDUAL CIGARETTE TIPPING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED NOVJA, 1906.

SSHEETS-SHEET 3.

" section is folded upon the cigarette.

.thus prevented from contact with the guide.

(See Figs. 6 and 7).

As the strips of paste lie along the edges and middle of the ribbon, they provide each section with a strip of paste along its edges,-

which secures one of the edges to the cigarette Wrapper, and secures the other edge with a lap-joint upon the first one, when the The paste roll is turned by a ratchet-wheel E and a pawl F carried by an arm upon the axle of the paste roll A, and oscillated through a lever G by a cam H upon the cam-shaft:

The standard 1 forms cutter-guide which is slotted vertically, and has a movable cut ter m fitted therein to move against the face of the cutter D. The cam-shaft 11 passes through the standard or cutter guide l, as shown in Fig. 1, and has adjacent to one side of the standard a cam 'n which operates upon a roll a journaled upon the cutter m. The rotation of the cam-shaft operates to raise the cutter m at the proper time to a section from the ribbon Z, and a folder 0 is hinged adjacent to the junction of the cutters and moved, as soon as the section is severed, to press or fold its rear edge around one side of the cigarette tip, thus pasting such edge to the tip. I,

As the tipping section lies in. contact with one side of the cigarette .tip, the section could not be severed by a straight cutter Without interference from the tip, and the cutter m is therefore hollowed or concaved upon its cutting end so that it commences to cut the edges of the ribbon first, and sevcrs the middle portion last, in contact with the under side of the cigarette, the pressure of the cutter serving in its final movement to stick the center strip of paste to the ciga rette.

To keep the edges of the cutters 'm and D in Working relation, tongues m. are shown in Fig. 4 formed upon. the outer corners of the cutter m and lie constantly in contact with the cutter D, and the ribbon Z advances between such tongucs before the section is cut off.

The ribbon guide 7c andupper cutter D are mounted upon a support upon one side of the cutter-guide, and the folder 0 is hinged or pivoted upon a support 1 upon the opposite side of the cutter-guide which supports it directly beneath the cigarette tip projecting over the edge of the belt.

The folder is actuated by a cam 7) upon the camshaft, acting on a roll upon a lever g pivoted. to one side the cutter-guide and hnkedto the folder by a rod 55. An ear .4;

the support 1 carries a pivoted fingr r having a counter-weight r to hold it yieldingly in the path of the cigareti rtip when the cigarette moves from its station before the cutter D, and such finger eprerts a yielding pressure upon. the forward edge of thetipping section i7 and presses the sjainr upwardly into the path of an adjacent wiper A folding apron t succeeds the wiper s in the path of such portion of the tipping section and completes the folding as the cigarette ti o is carried beneath it. The action of the iircer, the wiper and the folding apron "is ilhrtrated in Fig. i, where the action each element upon the tipping section is clearly shown, completing the folding of the section and wrapping one of its pasted edges over the other.

The wiper s and. apron t are made only a little wider than the tipped portion of the cigarette, as shown in Fig. 3. The folding; apron t is moved merely by the frictions contact of the cigarette with the same as the cigarette is carried around the drivin g wheel a; the apron. inclining toward the surface of the belt I) to produce the desired pressure upon the tipping section, and thus lappin the opposite edge against that first folded upon the cigarette, and forming a pasted lap joint. A guard u is supported adjacent to the outer side-of the driving-wheel c to wide the cigarettes into a chute '0 which de ivers them to a suitable receptacle.

The cigarette holders upon the belt 5 are provided, as shown in Fig. 2, with a sloping head. at the front which sets the 01 arettes.

with the rear end projecting uniform .y upon the opposite edge of the belt, to receive the tipping material. The dogs to are at the front edge of the belt, and the studs w are formed upon a disk 31 secured adjustabl'y by slot and bolt 11: upon one end of the druni, so that the disk. can be adjusted to re ulate the operation of, the dogs, and deliver the cigarettes exactly into the holders d.

, The apparatus is wholly automatic in its operation after the cigarettes are supplied to the ho ppcr 5nd the'ribbon of tipping material is placed upon the reel B sp that the tipping material is su plied with paste,

divided into sections anr wrapped upon the cigarette tip without any injury or defacenicnt of the cigarette or the tipping material.

Having thus sot i'orth the nature of themvcntion what isv claimed herein is:

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cigarette beneath the same, en upper cutter transverse to the end of the cigarette, e lower cutter movable toward the under side of the cigarette and operating with the upper cutter to sever a section of the tipping materiel flush with the end of the cigarette, and means for rolding the severed section about such proicctirig end.

2. in. ecig erette tipping machine, the combination, with. s belt having cigarette holders, of means for Suppl; a eigerettes to the belt with the end to be tipped. projecting, for feeding the end cl s pee ted ribbon tippi: X

serial be .eeth such. projecting to wrap the tipp 1 i of the tip, c yi the ti when carried past seine ":flllg Ali);

elt hsving holders ta e cigarettes, with th tip projecting t of the belt, of e crette hopper ver one end of the belt, e grooved arranged between the hop .er and the belt with a casing upon one siue to retain cigerettes in the grooves, ond means actuated by the belt for rotating th drum intermittin 'ly i the cig into the llfilClBlS.

rette t1 ion, more at v .rett'eswith the pro cting at belt, of v hopper in. 1 rooved drum ar- 45 tween the nopp .d thc'belt with lg upon one side is retain cigarettes in .oov..', studs upon the drum intermeto the rooves and dogs upon the belt cut to t 1e holders to rictuete the drum intermitiingly to discharge the cigarettes successively into the holders. f

6. in e cigarette tipping machine, the comoinetion, a. belt having cigarette holders and meens for supplying cigarettes to the belt with the end to be tipped projecting, of means for shifting the belt to bring each cigaretire to the cutter to receive u tipping section, means "for f ediug the end or. a ribbon of tipping mutcriel beneath the ci ite tip, un upper cutter held et the end oi V I rette tip, a :ovuble cutter w h conceve'end opersi' 1r ion from the rbbo d rig pasted the e md the section around the oppo bins-tion, with a belt having cigarette holders and means for supplying cigarettes to the belt with the end to he tipped projecting, of means for shil ting the belt to bring each cigarette holder to e cutter to receive a tipping section, means for feeding the end of a ribbon of tipping materiel beneath the cigarette tip, an upper cutter held at the end of the ciga rette tip, e movable cutter with concave end crating to cut the tipping section from the ribbon, a folder operating to wrap the section around one side or" the tip, and stationary devices operated when the belt is in motion for wrapping the tipping section around the remainder of the tip.

8. In a cigarette ti ping machine, the com binetion, with abelt avingcigerettc holders and means for supplying cigarettes to the belt with the end to be tipped projecting, of means for shifting the belt to bring each cigaholder to e cutter and holding it thereat to receive 21 tipping; section, means for feeding the end, of ribbon of tipping materiel beneath the cigarette tip, a vertical cutter guide inou ted below the cigarette tip With movable vertically therein, c supt upon one side ol the lmifeguide with e s .ronery cutter he? the one of the cigarette tip, and it support upon the opposite side of; the knife-guide with 2. folder ointed tliiereto and means for oscillrlting the folder While the cigarette is held stationery.

9. in e cigarette tip ing machine, the com-. binetion, with e belt paving, the transverse holders d for the cl crettes With. the tip ro- '0 jeoting beyond the loelt, of the driving-W. eel c for the belt, the geacwhel 7t for turnirw the same, the cam-shaft i having a mutilated gear for intermittingly turning the nearivhcel and shifting the belt, means for leed- 105 ing the end oi posted ribbon of tipping ma.- teriel beneath the cigarette, sputter, a cam upon the chin-shaft for actuating the same to sever e, tipping section from the ribbon, a folder, sn d e chm upon the cam-shaft to ectuete the seine to fold the severed section around one side of the tip.

10, In a cigarette ti )ping machine, the combination, vwith a belt having holders to elm-y the cigarettes with the tip projecting over the edge of the belt, of means for supplying a pasted section of tip in material to one side of the tip, a folder or olding such pest-ed section over one side of the tip, a yielding finger held in the path of the ti to bend the scetionegainst the other side 0 the tip, and rollers with an. apron held adjacent to the path of the tip to fold the remainder of the section down upon the tip.

11. in st ci 'srette tipping machine, the combination, with u belt having cigarette holders to receive the ci crettes With the tip pro ecting at the edge 01 the belt and means in: shifting the belt to bring the cigarettes rely to c tipping device, of a, cutter I V l a 1 adjacent to the end 01' thecigarette when shifted, a ribbon guide adjacent to the eutter,

means for feeding a ribbon of pasted tipping .meterial through the guide at one side of the holders to receive the cigarettes with the tip projecting-at the edge of the belt, efifeedwheel for shiftin the belt tobfing the cigarettes successive y to a tipping device, a cut tel ed'ecent to the end of the cigarette when shifte a ribbon guide edjecent to the cut- 'esmei tions for driving the belt-wheels intermittin'gly, end a cem on the cam-shaft with connections to the paste-roll for inteimittingl turnin the same to feed the ribbon throng the rib bon guide. I

ter, feed- 011" ends, paste-roll adjacent to the ribbon guide, a cennshaft with connec- In testimony-whereof Iheve'hereunto set niy'hend in thepresence oftwo subscribing Witnesses. I

v ALEXANDER BQUCHER. Witnesses:

L. LEE, THOMAS S. CRANE, 

